Brief Life History of Arthur Thomas
When Arthur Thomas Rigby was born in 1888, in Woolton, Lancashire, England, his father, Alfred Rigby, was 39 and his mother, Ann Eaton, was 35. He lived in Woolton, Liverpool, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1891. He died in 1963, at the age of 75.
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- Arthur T Rigby in household of Alfred Rigby, "England and Wales Census, 1891"
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1908
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Name Meaning
English (Lancashire): habitational name from Ribby in Lancashire, named with Old Scandanavian hryggr ‘ridge’ + bȳ ‘farmstead, village’. Compare Rigsby .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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